Jason Christensen, the city’s water resources manager, explained why the software has helped. “Initially we wanted to develop our own customer portal to push data to them but then we took a look at WaterSmart, and the fact you could automate leak notifications was a big saver for us.”

As 2016 emerges and we look forward to the year ahead, it’s instructive to engage in a little prognostication. There are some clear trends that began to take hold in 2015 to inform our outlook on the coming year in water. Here are the top water trends to watch for in 2016, according to Jeff Lipton, director of marketing at WaterSmart.

In 2012 Park City, Utah’s municiapal Water Department upgraded all its customers to an advance metering infrastructure (AMI) in order to notify residents of leaks and provide customers with better insights into usage trends. The city chose WaterSmart Software to integrate with its AMI system to provide a customer portal, automate leak notifications, and report hourly water usage data. The city and residents have benefitted from WaterSmart’s water portal through achieving conservation targets, savings due to leak notifications, increased customer engagement, and customized alert and notification settings.

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump’s messages are memorable. This Municipal Sewer & Water post by WaterSmart Software looks at how water utilities can employ the strategy of short, easy to understand messages for improved engagement.

At the 2015 California Economic Summit, Celeste Cantú, general manager of the Santa Ana River Watershed Authority (SAWPA), and Robin Gilthorpe, CEO of WaterSmart Software, collaborated on solutions for businesses and residents alike to achieve a more sustainable water balance for the 21st century.

The City of Medford recently implemented WaterSmart Software to offer its residents a tool for monitoring their water usage in order to save water, lower their bills, and receive important alerts and notifications from the city.

In the video, Celeste Cantú, General Manager of the Santa Ana River Watershed Authority, and Robin Gilthorpe, CEO of WaterSmart Software, discuss encouraging more comprehensive and modern water management approaches. One such example, the SAWPA collaboration, integrates management of water projects across a large watershed, instead of relying solely on individual water districts working separately. The SAWPA collaboration—which has invested billions of dollars in water storage, groundwater cleanup, water recycling, and stormwater management—has allowed the region to store and conserve so much water that cities from San Bernardino to Newport Beach have hardly been impacted at all by this year’s drought.

WaterSmart Software, a water utility customer engagement platform provider, announced national survey results that reveal that its software is responsible for a 36% increase in favorability ratings across its utility customers. Survey results also show WaterSmart’s customer engagement platform produces benefits for utility customers. Eighty-six percent of utility customers agree that the platform makes it easier to understand water use, and 66% agree that it makes it easier to save money on their water bills.

In a recent survey conducted by WaterSmart, polling 14,366 customers of those water utilities using the WaterSmart program, they found that WaterSmart is responsible for a 36% increase in satisfaction ratings across utility customers.